Telegram-herald., 1887-08-24

with groan and she was dead Her heart
was broken.
Umslopogaas pulled up beside the carcass,
/ and looked at him in dismay There were
still more than twenty r1iles to do by dawn.
and how were we to do it with one horses II
seemed hopeless, but had forgotten the old
Zulu's extraordinary running powers
Without single word he spranz from the
SADDLE and began TO hoist me into it.
"What wilt thou dolH | asked
"Run,' he answered, seizng nv stirrup
leather.
Then off we went again, almost as fast as
before; and. oh tne relief it was to me to get
that change Of horsesi Anybody who has
ever ridden against time viii know what it
meant
Daylight sped along at q iung stretching
hand gallop, giving the gaunt Zulu lift at
every stride. IL was wonderful thing 10
see old Umslopogass run mile after mile, his
lips slightly parted and his nostrils agapo like
the horses Every five miles or so we stopped
for few minutes to let him get his breath,
and then few on again.
SCanst thou go farther" said at the third
of these stoppsges, cor shall leave thee to
follow mel
fore US II was the Temple of the Sun, now
not more than five miles away.
Il reach it or die" he gaspei. sf4
Oh, that last FIVE milesi The skin was
rubbed from the inside of my legs, and every
movement of my horse gave me anguish.
Nor was that ell. ] was exhausted with toll,
want OF food and sleep, and also suffering
very much from the blow / had received
on my left side; it seemed as though piece
Of bone or something was slowly piercing
into my lung. Poor Daylight, too, was pretty
nearly finished, and no wonder. But tbcrc
was a smell OF dawn in the air. and we might
not stay; better that all three Of US should
die upon the road than that we should linger
while there was life in Us. The air was thick
and heavy, as it sometimes is before the dawn
breaks, and-anofher infallible sign in GER
tain parts Of Zu-Vendis that sunrise ia ct
nand-hundreds Of little spiders pendent on
he end Of long tough webs were floating
sbost in it. These early rising creatures. ct
rather their webs, caught upon the horses
and our own forms by scores, and &c we had
neither the time nor the energy to brush them
off. we rushed along covered with hundreds
q long gray threads that streaTned out a yard
OF paore behind us-snd q very strange sp-
pearsnce they naust have given rs
And now before us are the huge hrszen
gsfes of the outer val Of the Fro~uing City,
and new and horribls doubt strikes a8e:
" baf If they VIII not let 81 ini
'Openi op>nf- shout im4~riously. e. the
same time giving the royal password AOpeni
ou<ni a messenger, . Messenger with tidiDgs
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